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NEETBotanyAnatomy of Flowering Plants

Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion: Epidermal hairs in stem are essential for plants to retain water Reason: The root hairs are unicellular elongations of the epidermal cells

Options

  1. ABoth Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion
  2. BBoth Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
  3. CAssertion is true but the Reason is false
  4. DBoth Assertion are Reason are false

Correct answer

B. Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion

Step-by-step solution

On the stem the epidermal hairs are called trichomes. The trichomes in the shoot system are usually multicellular.The trichomes help in preventing water loss due to transpiration.

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